The former White House correspondent said the Attorney General sounded like “one of Ricky Bobby’s girlfriends.”

The former White House correspondent said the Attorney General sounded like “one of Ricky Bobby’s girlfriends.”


“I should not succumb to that level, but you know, she does sound like one of Ricky Bobby’s girlfriends,” Jim Acosta said on his podcast, The Jim Acosta Show, referring to the protagonist of the Will Ferrell and John C. Riley cult comedy classic, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Epstein’s case is in the limelight again after the Justice Department and the FBI acknowledged a leaked memo that found no evidence the late pedophile financier and convicted sex trafficker had kept a “client list” of uber-wealthy co-conspirators, leading to calls for her resignation from Trump’s support base. Bondi got into a heated exchange with FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino at the White House on Wednesday, where Bongino took her to task for overpromising and failing to deliver on Trump’s campaign pledge to release all files related to the disgraced financier.

Author: The Daily Beast


Published at: 2025-07-12 22:35:35

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